Matins and Vespers are the historic forms of Christian Daily Prayer as reformed by the Lutheran (Evangelical) and English (Anglican) reformations. The offices themselves were formed by the apostolic use of the Jewish Daily Prayer Cycle. Matins comes from the Latin word matutinus meaning "of the morning" and Vespers comes from the Latin word vespera meaning "evening". They are basically services that consist of Psalms, Scripture Lessons, Biblical Canticles, Readings from the Church Fathers, the Saints, or the Reformers, and various prayers. Matins is also called Lauds by some in the West today and Orthros in the East.
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